According to Alliance member Australian Road Safety Foundation, an average of 5.3 people lose their lives in traffic crashes in Australia every Friday, making Fridays one of the deadliest day of the week. In 2016, there were only two Fridays with no reported road fatalities. While there is no clear reason why motorists are at […]
Resulting from the recent 2017 Highways England Symposium in March, Road Safety Analysis with Highways England have produced a new report titled Paving the Way; putting behaviour change at the heart of a safe system. The report examines the current context and future trends, raising questions about the maturity of the road sector, the culture of […]
Apple has announced that its next iPhone software update, due for launch in the fall, will feature a “do not disturb while driving” mode. The iOS 11 update will provide all iPhones, not just new ones, with the function, which is designed to address the dangers associated with smartphones and distraction. Once the update has taken […]
Fondation Botnar and the Global Road Safety Partnership have announced the launch of the Botnar Child Road Safety Challenge. The Challenge is designed to fund projects that address locally relevant road safety problems with practical, innovative and evidence-based interventions. The Botnar Child Road Safety Challenge is seeking proposals from consortiums representing partners from government, civil society and […]
What challenges do pedestrians and cyclists face in cities of the developing world? What opportunities do these cities have to provide for walking and cycling? Based on in-depth research conducted in Cape Town (South Africa), Dar es Salaam (Tanzania) and Nairobi (Kenya), a newly-published book, Non-Motorized Transport Integration into Urban Transport Planning in Africa, explores […]
Around 90% of children at Bophirimi Primary School, Gaborone, Botswana, walk to school along a busy road, many of them on their own. Tumiso Selaledi of the Society of Road Safety Ambassadors (SORSA) is one of the 2018 Africa cohort of Alliance Advocates. She chose Bophirimi School for her safe school zone project. Assessing the […]
In February 2019, the Alliance launched a new social responsibility collaboration with FedEx Express Europe, a subsidiary of FedEx Corp, utilizing the expertise of the European Cyclists Federation (ECF), that aims to improve safety for vulnerable road users in Balkan cities. The Safer Cycling Advocate Program will empower NGOs to promote measures to improve cycling […]
As part of our follow-up communications for UNGRSW, we interviewed Rod King, founder of the UK-based NGO 20’s Plenty for Us. Rod was a key figure in the UNGRSW #SlowDown campaign. He was instrumental in helping to identify the target of 30 kilometers per hour for roads with possible conflicts between cars and unprotected users, […]
AVA Togo’s UNGRSW event literally slowed down the traffic. A caravan of 50 two-wheelers and a number of cars, trucks, and an ambulance, drove (slowly) around Togo’s capital city Lome from 8.00 until 14.00. The caravan departed from the sea front and proceeded through the most important streets of the city handing out flyers on […]
Alliance member Usalama Watch Initiative is on the brink of a major breakthrough in Kenya. Because of their advocacy, a national bill to ensure children a safer journey to and from school has passed its final reading in Parliament. It now needs only to be presented formally by the Attorney General for Presidential Ascension before coming […]
The Alliance is excited to welcome four new member organizations that joined recently: Centre for Injury Prevention and Research, Bangladesh (CIPRB) works to prevent injury through research and innovation. CIPRB saves lives by delivering programs throughout Bangladesh designed to combat injury-based fatalities. Projects include a pilot demonstration project on the Dhaka-Sylhet highway, known as the deadliest road in […]
Luchemos por la Vida received great news this week: the National Road Safety Agency (ANSV) have committed to raise their proposal for reduced speed limits to the Federal Court, which represents the provinces, and to present the draft to the National Legislature, in due course. The NGO started their campaign during the Fourth UN Global Road […]
Amma Oduro-Dankwah of Amend, Ghana. wrote a blog piece about her experiences at the Global Meeting. “I attended pre-meeting workshops on NGO partnerships with multilateral banks, child-centered road safety education, addressing gender and risk in road safety and safe school journeys. I learned about so many issues that are usually overlooked when considering road safety. […]
The International Road Federation (IRF Geneva), supporting global action aiming at halving the number of road death and injuries from road crashes by 2020 has released a new knowledge repository on road safety. The Global Transport Knowledge Practice (gTKP) hosts work produced by Project Group 1 and Project Group 2 of the United Nations Road […]
In April we reported on the new law that came into force in Tunisia, making it mandatory for drivers and front seat passengers to wear seatbelts. Now, two months on, the first statistics are available and they show a clear reduction in road fatalities in comparison to the same month in previous years: a 34% […]
Call for Proposals – Safer Road Users and Safer Vehicles (Round 12) The Global Road Safety Partnership has announced the launch of the Round 12 Call for Proposals under the Road Safety Grants Programme. Since 2012, the Road Safety Grants Programme has supported organizations advocating for the adoption and implementation of evidence-based policies to protect road […]
Kapan is a city in Southern Armenia. UN Global Road Safety Week was an opportunity for Alliance member National Road Safety Council (NRSC) to run the first event of this kind in the city. While often campaigns focus on the major cities in a country, speed is just as much of an issue in the […]
The Alliance is excited to welcome two new members that joined in April: Public Health Perspective Nepal (Janaswasthya Pariprekshya Nepal) conducts research on road user behaviors, organizes road safety awareness campaigns, promotes the World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims in Nepal, publishes articles on road safety in its official newsletter, and shares news via social networking […]
Riders of motorized two- and three-wheeled vehicles account for 53% of road deaths in the Philippines. Yet in a survey of hospitals, while 62% of road injuries were motorcycle riders, only 4% were wearing a helmet. According to another report, children on motorcycles are more vulnerable to injury than adults because their brains and skulls […]
In Mozambique, children aged between 6 and 12 had the opportunity to be the judges in a speeding court set up by Amend Mozambique and Amviro in collaboration with the Mozambique traffic police. Escola Completa Da Imaculada is a primary school with 1398 children situated on a busy road with no traffic-calming mechanisms: no school signs, speed […]
